HomeLab & Selfhosting Books
from irmadlad@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 19:46
https://lemmy.world/post/40245574

I’ve read ‘The Home Lab Handbook: Building and Managing Your Own IT Lab from Scratch’ which I would recommend to anyone just starting out in selfhosting and homelabing. Relative to that, I found a ‘course’ online (linuxupskillchallenge.org/#table-of-contents) that would also be useful for new arrivals.

Anyone reading any good HomeLab & Selfhosting books lately?

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Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works on 15 Dec 19:57 next collapse

I use calibre to organize them i dump them into calibre-web. From there we make shelves (my wife and I) and sync with our Kobos.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 20:19 collapse

Yeah, I settled on Calibre Web, which is not quite as ugly as Calibre Desktop with the themepark addon.

Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works on 15 Dec 20:31 next collapse

Before you get too far into it, check out booklore and calibre-web-automated. Just to see if ya wanna go a different way. I plan on probably switching the next time we upgrade e-reader or i have to factory wipe them. Redoing on the calibre side and just resyncing got messy fast and wife approval went way way down.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 20:50 collapse

I’ll check those out. At the most, I guess I’d have to re-import the books if the db isn’t the right format.

Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works on 15 Dec 23:36 collapse

I think my issue was that the shelves are just number based so remaking a shelf isn’t the same as the original. Def operator error. Sync still worked fine it just removed books from the shelf but stayed on the device.

damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 20:54 next collapse

Theme park add on? Tell me more!

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 21:02 collapse

ThemePark is a docker container that has a multitude of themes for many different applications. To add the theme for Calibre, you’ll access Settings and then Edit Basic Configuration, and insert ‘theme-park.dev’ in the ‘Trusted Hosts’ slot, thusly"

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4639ff14-e049-40d0-b06d-721cc30ee054.png">

That gives you a more pleasing asthetic to Calibre: theme

ETA: List of supported apps: docs.theme-park.dev/themes/sonarr/

damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 05:03 collapse

I don’t use calibre web yet. I only use calibre’s inbuilt web service thing. Does theme park work with that too?

Also, I have calibre running on windows and I don’t run docker on that (for reasons). So can I use calibre web on a separate system on the network and have it connect to the calibre db somehow over the wire?

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 15:18 collapse

Does theme park work with that too?

TBH, I am not sure. I think you’d have to consult with both ThemePark and Calibre docs.

So can I use calibre web on a separate system on the network and have it connect to the calibre db somehow over the wire?

Strike two for me. I’m sorry…I just don’t know because I’ve never tried to do that.

damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 15:30 collapse

I set it up last night. Network share would be too easy to corrupt apparently, so I hustled copied over the files and started fresh. Once in a while, I’ll move files back to my “original” install.

cRazi_man@europe.pub on 15 Dec 21:58 collapse

I’m using Calibre web to organise books, convert format and download metadata; and then use Kavita to read my books/comics. Works great.

darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 00:07 next collapse

Guys, OP is asking for recommendations for books about self-hosting, not recommendations on how to self-host books.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 00:27 collapse

It’s ok. A hard left was made a long time ago, so I just went with it. LOL

darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 00:44 collapse

Got it. Never even thought about looking into books when I was getting into the hobby. It was all just searching and following online guides. I am curious if there’s anything out there other than the typical linux/networking stuff.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 01:07 collapse

There are a few that I’ve managed to see that specifically deal with selfhosting and homelabs:

  • The Proxmox Homelab Bible: The Ultimate Homelab Guide to Virtualization, Self-Hosting, and DIY Cloud Power
  • Automating the Homelab with Ansible, Terraform & SaltStack : A Beginner’s Guide to Smart Servers, Raspberry Pi Projects
  • The Complete Homelab Bible: Learn how to Build, Automate and Master Personal and Professional IT Labs ; Virtualization, Networking, Storage, Containers, Automation, Security and Real-World

I find reading far better for me, than watching a video tutorial.

Seefoo@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 02:38 next collapse

Most of the books I read are docs on all the fuggin homelab devices & services…wish I had time to read books at this point.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 15:43 collapse

I save most of my reading material for when I’m laying in bed. Usually takes me about an hour to wind down so might as well make good use of the time.

mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud on 16 Dec 06:45 next collapse

My god man, I need to add that site to my list. I don’t need it as I’ve been homelabing for many years, also support a SaaS app to keep me sharp.

But that site should be everywhere

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 15:23 collapse

I just stumbled upon it one day and thought that it was worth a bookmark for someone who may ask introductory questions about getting into Linux and selfhosting. I have no clue as to it’s origins, but I went down through the list and there are some valuable information being presented. Spread it around.

eli@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 13:23 collapse

I don’t have any books in particular to recommend, but with homelab’ing we should be learning about the command line of our OS(Powershell, terminal(bash, zsh)).

Learning the ins and outs of something like bash, cron, environment variables, for loops, systemd services(managing, creating your own), command line networking…all things I’ve had to learn to either setup, manage, and/or troubleshoot my homelab.

So maybe basic Linux command line books? Probably O’Reilly has some along with bash.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 15:42 collapse

Speaking of O’Reilly, I’ve often wondered about their book cover art. Usually it’s some type of animal.